This book is an attempt to handpick the greatest works in short story writing over the years, including some of the most recognizable names in the field of literature.
50 WORLD'S GREATEST SHORT STORIES.
100 World's Greatest Short Stories
This anthology is an amalgam of some of the classic short stories from the early nineteenth century, from around the globe.
With a new 1999 story added to the paperback volume, this collection of the best stories of the century includes some of the greatest names in literature as well as a few spectacular one-hit wonders. Reprint.
The message in all his stories is presented with such humour that the reader hardly realises that it is strongly didactic. These stories give a snapshot of Russia and its people in the late nineteenth century.
Presents a collection of fifty-six familiar and unfamiliar stories by such writers as Washington Irving, Ernest Hemingway, Edgar Allan Poe, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Henry James, and Kate Chopin.
Features 19 gems in the American short-story tradition, including "The Tell-Tale Heart" by Edgar Allan Poe, "Bartleby" by Herman Melville, "To Build a Fire" by Jack London, plus stories by Hemingway, Fitzgerald, Hawthorne, Twain, others.
50 Greatest Short Stories is a selection from the best of the world's short fiction, bringing together writings by great masters of the genre.
"This is a wonderful collection of authors from America and around the world.